Joshua 24:20

New American Bible - revised edition

If you forsake the Lord and serve strange gods, he will then do evil to you and destroy you, after having done you good.”

Cross References

1 Chronicles 28:8

Therefore, in the sight of all Israel, the assembly of the Lord, and in the hearing of our God: keep and carry out all the commandments of the Lord, your God, that you may continue to possess this good land and afterward leave it as an inheritance to your children forever.

1 Chronicles 28:9

“As for you, Solomon, my son, know the God of your father and serve him with a whole heart and a willing soul, for the Lord searches all hearts and understands all the mind’s thoughts. If you search for him, he will be found; but if you abandon him, he will cast you off forever.

2 Chronicles 15:2

He went forth to meet Asa and said to him: “Hear me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin! The Lord is with you when you are with him, and if you seek him he will be found; but if you abandon him, he will abandon you.

Ezra 8:22

For I was ashamed to ask the king for troops and horsemen to protect us against enemies along the way, since we had said to the king, “The favoring hand of our God is over all who seek him, but his fierce anger is against all who forsake him.”

Psalm 89:31

If his descendants forsake my teaching, do not follow my decrees,

Isaiah 1:28

Rebels and sinners together shall be crushed, those who desert the Lord shall be consumed.

Isaiah 63:10

But they rebelled and grieved his holy spirit; So he turned to become their enemy, and warred against them.

Jeremiah 17:13

O Hope of Israel, Lord! all who forsake you shall be put to shame; The rebels shall be enrolled in the netherworld; they have forsaken the Lord, source of living waters.

Ezekiel 18:24

And if the just turn from justice and do evil, like all the abominations the wicked do, can they do this evil and still live? None of the justice they did shall be remembered, because they acted treacherously and committed these sins; because of this, they shall die.

Acts 7:42

Then God turned and handed them over to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: ‘Did you bring me sacrifices and offerings for forty years in the desert, O house of Israel?

Deuteronomy 4:25

When you have children and children’s children, and have grown old in the land, should you then act corruptly by fashioning an idol in the form of anything, and by this evil done in his sight provoke the Lord, your God,

Deuteronomy 4:26

I call heaven and earth this day to witness against you, that you shall all quickly perish from the land which you are crossing the Jordan to possess. You shall not live in it for any length of time but shall be utterly wiped out.

Hebrews 10:38

But my just one shall live by faith, and if he draws back I take no pleasure in him.”

Joshua 24:21

But the people answered Joshua, “No! We will serve the Lord.”

1 Samuel 12:15

But if you do not listen to the voice of the Lord and if you rebel against the Lord’s command, the hand of the Lord will be against you and your king.

1 Samuel 12:25

If instead you continue to do evil, both you and your king shall be swept away.”